New Musical Express (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
... drunk (and that’s not the oddest thing about the song, but the fact that it’s a direct lift from ‘Jimmy Mack’ by Martha Reeves & The Vandellas). Ida veers between these three themes with mostly impressive results.Things only come unstuck when she wriggles in self-pitying throes of ‘Keep Me Warm’, by which time she’s even finding existential crisis in the act of lying in bed. You do...
Olly's Onions (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Following the collapse of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and IndyMac , US treasury secretary Hank Paulson has issued an edict that all American banks are to be renamed in a similar style. JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs are to be rebranded Jimmy Mack and LL Cool G respectively and the Fed itself will henceforth be known as Big Mac. The UK is thought to be following suit in a British style with...
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
... long enough to expose their adequacy. Queen Of The World kicks up its heels, Stella rewrites Jimmy Mack as a punk pop belter and opener Oh My God has unfettered verve running through it like lettering through a stick of rock.Overall, though, Fortress Round My Heart feels more like one-night-stand material than music with which to forge a lasting relationship.XX TEENS: WELCOME TO GOON...
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
... long enough to expose their adequacy. Queen Of The World kicks up its heels, Stella rewrites Jimmy Mack as a punk pop belter and opener Oh My God has unfettered verve running through it like lettering through a stick of rock.Overall, though, Fortress Round My Heart feels more like one-night-stand material than music with which to forge a lasting relationship.XX TEENS: WELCOME TO GOON...
